IN A FISHING COUNTRY 



cannot be persuaded to place a thwart in 

 the middle, and condemn you to carry with 

 insufficient headroom, on paddles that 

 spring and cut the shoulders. The greater 

 speed of the wooden canoe is given up will- 

 ingly for the many advantages of the other, 

 although this has not yet been brought to 

 perfection for rough travel and long 

 carries. Better canvas and paint, with a 

 lighter frame-work of cedar, would turn 

 out a canoe for three men and baggage 

 weighing less than fifty pounds, and fit, in 

 good hands, to stand up to anything. One 

 newfangled device deserves a word of 

 praise. The pneumatic yoke gives ease in 

 carrying a canoe; between whiles, as a 

 cushion or seat, it falls into the class of 

 things which are unnecessary but comfort- 

 ing. The Adirondack basket is not well 

 enough known in our country as a safe and 

 convenient means of transporting break- 

 ables and miscellanea. 



For rapid unencumbered journeying the 

 unit is inevitably three. One carries the 

 canoe; another, tent, provisions, cooking 

 outfit; the third, — everything else. He is 

 the human hat-rack. With this appor- 

 tioning of the labour — cutting down all 



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